Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Colour Sergeant W. D. Close, Irish Guards

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Netherlands, Commemorative War Cross 1944, 1 clasp, Nederland Mei 1940; France, Liberated France Medal 1944, all unnamed, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (6) £80-100

William Dominic Clase was born in 1917 and enlisted into the Irish Guards at Belfast on 10 January 1938. His service record shows that he was in Holland from 12 May to 15 May 1940, as part of the force charged with covering the evacuation of the Dutch Royal Family and Government. He then went to Boulogne, France, 22 - 24 May 1940, as part of the diversionary force attempting to take pressure off Dunkirk. He next landed in France on 14 June 1944 (D-Day plus 8) and remained in N.W. Europe until December 1945. He was transferred to the Army Reserve in march 1946 and discharged being medically unfit for further service on 8 November 1946.

Sold with original Regular Army Certificate of Service; British medals confirmed. With additional copied research.